Well the election is over, decisions have been made and we must now live with them. The question is how we will go forward. I've vacillated between disappointment and apathy. Disappointed in an electorate that fails to see the insustainability of the path we have been on. Apathy because I will probably get through it ok anyway but then I remember my children and grandchildren who eventually pay for all this.
This morning I was reading Julie at the Happy Catholic and she gave me something else to think about and maybe helped me put it in perspective. in her post from Wed. Nov.4 titled No one wants their first words of the morning to be Damn it. She remembers that she is a monarchist and what that means to her. For those of us who are Christians it helps to put things in perspective. Knowing we have a King as well as a president helps but I still wonder where we're going.
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romney wouldn't have made a difference to the path, ya know. republicans have added more to the unsustainability than the democrats in recent presidencies. wars not paid for at the same time taxes got cut on the ones of us more able to pay... but you've heard it all before and obviously think a republican administration would be more fiscally responsible despite what recent ones indicate.
ReplyDeleteas long as moneyed corporate interests with well-paid lobbyists are running the show we'll have problems.
tho i do admit i think fondly back on the clinton surplus and not so fondly on the irresponsibility that followed.
You may be right but Obama has created more debt than any president we've had and shown no willingness to slow his rate of spending. Like it or not the spending on wars is at least within the realms of constitutionality where much of the spending in the Obama administration was useless give aways that did nothing to improve the economy. The tax cuts that Bush enacted benefited all wage classes and in fact at least early on increased revenue.
Deletethe debt's a problem but they've _all_ got problems dealing with this issue. it depends on party affiliation where they want to cut and how (or if) they want to raise revenue.
ReplyDeletei've bought the other side's view of those tax cuts. not everyone is in a "wage class" and taxes impact different income levels differently. cutting government income does not increase government income. but we are on different sides of that divide.
i see the main problem as being a deliberately obstructionist house whose primary goal has been to make obama a 1-term president. i'm hoping now they'll be willing to focus on something else.